Police Story 2

Infobox Film
name = Police Story 2


caption = Japan DVD cover
director = Jackie Chan
producer = Raymond Chow
Leonard Ho
writer = Jackie Chan
Edward Tang
narrator =
starring = Jackie Chan
Maggie Cheung
Charlie Cho
music = J. Peter Robinson
Yiu-Cho Cheung
cinematography = Chu Chang Yao
editing =
distributor = flagicon|Hong Kong Golden Harvest
flagicon|Hong Kong Media Asia
released =
runtime = 101 min. (Hong Kong)
122 min. (DVD)
92 min. (US)
country = Hong Kong
language = Cantonese
budget =
preceded_by = "Police Story"
followed_by = "Police Story 3"
website =
amg_id = 1:128249
imdb_id = 0095403

"Police Story 2" (警察故事２, or "Ging chaat goo si juk jaap") is a 1988 Hong Kong action-comedy film directed by and starring Jackie Chan. It is a sequel to the hit 1985 film, "Police Story", continuing the storyline of Chan's character, "Kevin" Chan Ka-Kui.

Plot

Inspector Chan Ka-Kui has been demoted to highway patrol as the result of his handling of his previous case, which involved the violent arrest of crimelord Chu Tao. The new duty pleases his girlfriend, May, who is glad that her boyfriend is no longer taking difficult cases and has more time to see her.

However, the happy mood changes when Ka-Kui is greeted by Chu Tao and his bespectacled right-hand man John Ko. It seems Chu Tao is terminally ill with only three months left to live, so he's been released from prison, and while he's still alive he vows to make life difficult for Ka-Kui. John Ko and some henchmen show up at Ka Kui's apartment and intimidate him, baiting the policeman to attack. Later, May and her mother are beaten by John Ko and his men. Ka Kui can no longer hold back, and he lashes out against John Ko and his men at a restaurant.

Ashamed of his behavior, Ka-Kui intends to leave the Royal Hong Kong Police Force for good. He plans to take a trip to Bali with May, but while he's at a travel agency in a shopping mall, some police officers see him and report that the mall is under a bomb threat. Unable to resist the urge to get involved in police work, Ka Kui tells the officers to sound the fire alarm and have the mall cleared, and agrees to take responsibility for the decision. A bomb does indeed explode, and the entire mall is leveled by the blast.

Ka-Kui is praised for his efforts, and he is assigned to solve the case of the bombing. Ka-Kui plants a covert listening device in the mall property company's office to try and learn more about the bombers. This leads to a suspect who is a deaf-mute and is a fierce martial artist and explosives expert.

The bombing gang, aware that the police are on to them, plan a simultaneous bombing of the property company and the police headquarters. They double their ransom demand to $20 million and kidnap May, luring Ka-Kui into a trap in which he's strapped with an explosive vest and forced to pick up the extortion money from the property company. However, after handing off the money, Ka-Kui is able to drive his car into a tunnel so that the bomb he's wearing can't be activated, and he strips off the vest. He then goes to rescue May, who's being held in a warehouse full of fireworks. Ka-Kui again faces the deaf-mute man, who throws small firebombs at him. Ka-Kui then gains the upper hand and brutally retaliates against the mute man, finally throwing him off a several-stories-high catwalk onto a pile of plastic drums below.

Ka-Kui then rescues May and departs the warehouse, just as it explodes in a huge ball of fire.

Cast

* Jackie Chan as "Kevin" Chan Ka-Kui
* Maggie Cheung as May
* Yuen Chor as Chu Tu
* Charlie Cho as John Ko
* Lam Kwok-Hung as Superintendent Raymond Li
* Bill Tung as "Uncle" Bill Wong
* Mars as Inspector Kim
* Benny Lai as Dummy

Awards and nominations

* 1989 Hong Kong Film Awards
** Won: Best Action Choreography

Box office

This film grossed HK $34,151,609 in Hong Kong.

DVD releases

The longest cut of the film is the Japanese cut at 122 minutes. The Hong Kong cut is 101 minutes and the US is 92 minutes. The version in the IVL trilogy DVD boxset is the Japanese version but with Hong Kong blooper footage (but retaining the soundtrack used in the Japanese version). The Hong Kong Legends version is cropped from the original aspect ratio. In 2007, Dragon Dynasty (The Weinstein Company) released a version of the DVD that also contains the 122 minute cut of the film.

ee also

*"The Protector"
*"Crime Story"
* List of Hong Kong films
*Jackie Chan filmography

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095403/ IMDB: "Police Story 2"]
* [http://www.cinedie.com/dvd/policecropping.htm Cropping aspect ratio on HKL DVD from Cinedie]
* [http://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/film.php?fid=1777 DVD Comparison from Rewind]
* [http://adg.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=31&hl= Asian DVD Guide Discussion]